Boy, 8, dies after being pulled from Chandler pool

An 8-year-old boy drowned Friday at a house near Gilbert and Chandler Heights roads, according to Chandler police.

Officials said the boy was not breathing about 7 p.m. when the homeowner pulled him from the pool in the 2700 block of East Birchwood Place.

The boy did not know how to swim, police said.

Police said the boy did not live at the home where the drowning took place but was the nephew of a caregiver who works there. He and his brother had come to the residence that afternoon to stay while she worked, police said.

The boy was pronounced dead before 8 p.m. at a hospital.

Investigators still were trying to determine what led to the victim falling into the pool.

The caregiver was too distraught to immediately provide a statement, and the drowning took a toll on all of the first responders involved, said Detective Seth Tyler, a Chandler Police Department spokesman.